Hitchhiked trips:

What an intense experience it can be to hitchhike in a country where you don't speak the spoken language. I chose to hitchhike over the three hour bus for this.
The first ride was awesome, a rider who spoke good enough english, but this ride was gonna hit my nerves.

A big bus with blackened window stops. The bus has room for 11 people and inside sit three teens with their… (read on in Trip)

I arrived by boat from satun and decided to take one of those little taxis to get a little bit out of town. I tried to explain the driver with the help of a map and my body language that I want to go out of town to hitchhike and NOT to the bus station.
Of course he drove me to the bus station.
I repeatedly tried to explain him that I want to go out of town and he drove me… (read on in Trip)

Bus full of children picks me up. But unfortunately only for 5 minutes

From Singapore I took the bus to the border (see hitchwiki for details) and walked over the bridge towards Malaysia. There's a very nice spot for the cars to stop in the middle of the bridge, but it's kind of difficult to hitchhike through Johor Bahru from the border because all cars are going into Johor Bahru and not going anywhere else. If you try it make a sign!

Took the Bemo out of town, which cost me 5000 rs, so not really a real hitchhike

Getting rid of taxis and bemos

Hitchhiking in Java works! Once you are on the main road which leads to the main cities like Surabaya, Yogyakarta or Jakarta, you easily find good cars, which have space to take you.
It took me about 15 minutes to get picked up from just behind where the ferry is stopping from Java, but in those 15 minutes I needed to get rid of about 10 bemos and several motor cyclists… (read on in Trip)

Jim, a very well travelled gentleman in his 60s picked me up. He told me about his adventures and his tour around the world in the 70s in which he also hitchhiked from Europe to India through India and Afghanistan.

Talking to him was like talking to a 40 years older version of myself.

Even though his destination was about 20 kms before Byron Bay, he insisted on driving… (read on in Trip)

Driving with scooters from village to village was slower than I expected and going through many villages meant getting the attention from the villagers along the way. Finally out of the village, I wanted to hitch a ride…

One scooter stops and tells me that he can take me to the next village, but only if I pay 200 rupies (way too expensive for Indian standards). I told him… (read on in Trip)

Indian driving to his girlfriend

During the ride he explained me that he is going to his girlfriend. When I asked him if he would marry her he replied with a confident voice: "no. These things are just for enjoyment. I will get an arranged wedding. This is the way things work here. My parents will choose a wife for me."